University of Huddersfield Repository The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial: Implications for ‘Agricultural Thinking’
University of Huddersfield Repository The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial: Implications for ‘Agricultural Thinking’
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本文介绍了S2 AGES数据库中25，000 - 10，000年前西欧校准放射性碳估计的初步结果。我们的目标是通过提供一个时间顺序安全的框架来解释遗传学和考古学的数据，从而呈现这个次大陆地区的人口历史。特别是，我们使用日期作为数据定义了这一时期的五个人口事件，并研究了晚冰期殖民考古学的影响。我们将这种详细的区域方法与更大的项目进行对比，我们称之为认知起源综合，包括人口历史重建中的历史语言学。我们的结论是，只有考古学目前可以提供人口历史和遗传数据的评估框架。最后，如果要在人口史这一新的跨学科领域取得进展，那么这两个学科都需要避免不适当的农业思维，这种思维助长了欧洲史前史的扭曲模型，而且它们也应该少关注历史语言学。
This article presents the initial results from the S2AGES data base of calibrated radiocarbon estimates from western Europe in the period 25,000–10,000 years ago. Our aim is to present a population history of this sub-continental region by providing a chrono-logically-secure framework for the interpretation of data from genetics and archaeology. In particular, we define five population events in this period, using dates-as-data, and examine the implications for the archaeology of Late Glacial colonization. We contrast this detailed regional approach to the larger project which we call the cognitive origins synthesis that includes historical linguistics in the reconstruction of population history. We conclude that only archaeology can currently provide the framework for population history and the evaluation of genetic data. Finally, if progress is to be made in the new interdisciplinary field of population history then both disciplines need to refrain from inappropriate agricultural thinking that fosters distorting models of European prehistory, and they should also pay less, if any, attention to historical linguistics.